Richard Coffey

Background

About Richard Coffey

I am an exceptional technical manager that inspires and focuses engineers who support the smartest customers working on the hardest problems. For 20 years, I have led technical teams who hosted leadership-class supercomputers, maintained the distribution of open-source software, and supported customers developing scalable cloud-based applications and services. This experience forged a technically sharp manager and an empathetic leader.Today I serve enterprise customers for AWS by bringing my technical skills, by leveraging my experiences in strategy and management, and by stewarding long-term relationships. At KnowNOW Health, I brought a product to market, ran DevOps on AWS, pursued product-market fit, and developed proof of concept microservices. At Argonne National Laboratory, I created organizational habits in process improvement, developed user-centered design and customer experience practices, mentored multiple staff members into managers, and helped break down siloing to foster a “one-organization” attitude among the staff. At the University of Washington, I helped usher in a new era of research-focused computing and improved educational IT infrastructure for faculty, staff, and students in multiple science departments. Finally, at the SCI Institute at the University of Utah, I tied together my broad set of skills to help grow this startup-like organization within a university – it is now over 200 researchers and students strong.